LETHBRIDGE- Last year an estimated four million Canadians did not have a family doctor.
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Canada facing engineer shortage
Engineer a future with abundant career prospects.
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Hospital Chief of Staff address physician shortage rumours
There appears to be considerable apprehension and misunderstanding about the physician and general medical services in High River. As the Chief of Staff for High River Hospital, I would like to give a current summary of the services and an outlook for the future.
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Report shows land shortage threat real
Calgary new home builders started 724 new homes inside city limits in August, down from 825 in August 2012, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
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Trucker shortage looms for Alberta
Alberta is going to have a severe shortage of truck drivers by the end of the decade, according to a new report.
The Conference Board of Canada study predicts that by 2020 the province will need an extra 6,200 truck drivers to keep the economy rolling.
The shortage will be about 25,000 countrywide, according to the report which was funded by the Canadian Trucking Alliance.
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Construction industry faces worker shortage
10:14PM EST November 28. 2012 – The construction industry shed 2.2 million workers between January 2007 and last year.
So now there’s an overabundance of them eager for jobs, right?
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Careers: The Next Generation promotes trades careers to youth in Alberta
EDMONTON- A shortage of skilled trades workers is a longtime concern in Alberta and shows no sign of abating.
In fact, with the economy expanding through a variety of new energy projects, the shortfall could be as many as 70,000 trades people by 2020. Although immigration may address some vacancies, the surest way to fill those jobs is with homegrown talent.
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Construction demographic ‘time bomb’ may delay oil and gas projects
“It’s a demographic timebomb,” says Christopher Smillie, a senior advisor of the Canadian Building Trades, which represents more than 550,000 skilled tradespeople in 15 trades across the country.
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Energy sector grapples with acute labour shortages
Any legitimate job offering $80,000-plus as a starting salary should be an easy sell to students in these troubled economic times, right? Wrong.
“Even in Alberta there is a poor connection in the K-12 education system to find balanced information about the oil and gas industry,” says Cheryl Knight, executive director and chief executive of the Petroleum HR Council of Canada. “The environmental messaging is much more attractive and probably easier to make interesting for students everywhere. It is a key problem that our industry faces, even just outside my door.”
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Is There a Housing Shortage?
It’s hard to imagine, given that the nation’s housing market is still digging itself out of an epic foreclosure crisis, that there just are not enough homes available to buy. That, apparently, is the case, according to the National Association of Realtors, who blame a drop in home sales on an “acute lack of supply” in certain formerly hot markets.
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